Mangalore, September 2: Flights from Mumbai to Mangalore and vice versa have been delayed after a Turkish plane skidded off the runway at Mumbai Airport early Friday.
Mangalore Airport Director MR Vasudeva said that none of the three flights that had come from Mumbai, landed till 2:30 pm.
However he said that the flights were expected to receive green signal for landing soon.
A Jet Airways plane, an Air India plane and a King Fisher flight had flown to Mangalore from Mumbai before noon.
Mangaluru, Feb 6: In a case of suspected political rivalry, a 28-year-old BJP activist was brutally assaulted by a gang at Munchoor here, police said on Thursday.
Police said that the injured identified as Yashodhar is undergoing treatment at Padmavathi Hospital here.
Four people namely – Diwakar, Dinesh Shetty, Ashwith Kulal and Yashodhara Agaramelu – assaulted Yashodhar and posed him with a death threat. It was reported that the gang had been keeping an eye on Yashodhar’s movements for some time now.
Mangaluru, May 8: Migrant workers, stranded in Karnataka due to lockdown, staged a protest on Friday at the Central Railway Station here, demanding to be sent back to their respective native places.
The workers demanded the state government to take measures and send them back to their homes.
Maintaining social distancing and covering their faces with masks, the workers were holding placards which read -- "We want to go home Jharkhand, We want justice and we want to go home."
They appealed to the state government to arrange trains and buses to ferry them to their native places and threatened to walk home if denied transport.
Several protests have erupted in different parts of the country, such as Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, as stranded labourers took to the roads demanding to be sent back home.
The Ministry of Home Affairs on May 1 had issued an order to extend the ongoing lockdown by two more weeks from May 4 with some relaxations.
Bengaluru, Apr 9: 10 new positive cases have been confirmed in Karnataka, apart from the recent fatality of an 80-year-old woman from Gadag district, the health department said on Thursday.
The fresh cases have been reported in the state from last evening to Thursday noon.
Till date, 191 COVID-19 positive cases have been confirmed, which includes 6 deaths and 28 discharges, the update said.
Among the 10 positive cases, eight are contacts of patients who have already tested positive- one each from Belagavi, Mandya and Chikkaballapura, two from Mysuru, and three from Bagalkote; while two from Bengaluru city are with a travel history to Delhi.
Three cases from Bagalkote are children- two boys of 4 and 13 years of age, and one girl of 9 years old.
The elderly woman died on April 8 in Gadag, the department said in its mid-day situation update.
Confirming that her reports tested positive on April 7, officials had said, she had a history of Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI).
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